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horned dinosaur
Wendiceratops
Say it like this: “WEN-dee-SEH-ruh-tops”
Wendiceratops pinhornensis
Wendiceratops ate plants and walked on four legs. It lived in the Late Cretaceous. Bones have been found in Canada.
- When
- Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
- Named in
- 2015 · Evans, D. C.; Ryan, M. J.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 6 m · 20 ft
- Weight
- 1.5 tonnes
- Found in
- Canada · Oldman
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Four legs
- Kind
- horned dinosaur · Ceratopsian
- Family branch
- Centrosaurinae
The story in short
The genus Wendiceratops dates to 2015, the year D. C. Evans and M. J. Ryan described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Wendiceratops date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian), roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago. Finds come from Canada, including the Oldman Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on four legs.
Published estimates put Wendiceratops at a length near 6 m and a body mass around 1.5 tonnes.
On the family tree it sits in Centrosaurinae, among the horned dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Achelousaurus
Achelousaurus horneri
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Albertaceratops
Albertaceratops nesmoi
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Avaceratops
Avaceratops lammersi
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago